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Samantha Morton And Michael Shannon To Star In Indie Thriller ‘The Harvest’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 9:29am PSTTags: John McNaughton, Michael Shannon, Samantha Morton, The Harvest

Samantha Morton and Michael Shannon have been cast as the leads of The Harvest, a psychological thriller to be directed by Wild Things helmer John McNaughton. Precious producer Elephant Eye Films is producing and handling international sales; Living Out Loud Productions will finance. The story centers on Katherine (Morton), a successful heart surgeon and overprotective mother, and Richard (Shannon), her co-dependent husband who has retired from his career as a nurse to care for their sick son Andy. Andy lives in a controlled world until an innocent 13-year-old neighbor moves in and gives Andy hopes of a better life. As the teens grow closer, the tight-knit world Katherine has created begins to unravel. Charlie Tahan, Natasha Calis, Leslie Lyles, and Meadow Williams co-star. Stephen Lancellotti wrote the script. Kim Jose, David Robinson, Steven A. Jones, and Williams are producing the film, which is shooting in Palisades and Brooklyn through January. READ MORE »

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Samantha Morton, Ari Folman, Laetitia Casta Among Venice Jury Members

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 11:41am PDTTags: 69th Venice International Film Festival, Michael Mann, Samantha Morton

The Venice Film Festival has announced the artists who will make up the competition jury under president Michael Mann for the 69th running of the event. They are: Serbian artist and performer Marina Abromovic, the recipient … Read More »

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Study Says U.K. Film & TV Biz Discriminates Against Working Class, Women, Minorities

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday April 11, 2012 @ 5:47am PDTTags: Hugh Grant, Samantha Morton

A plummy accent and good connections are among essential attributes for moving ahead in Britain’s film and TV industry, according to a new report by two British academics. The production sector is “dominated by the middle classes who hoard opportunities to work on the best contracts,” say professor Irena Grugulis of Durham University and Dr Dimitrinka Stoyanova of the University of St Andrews. After a period of observation and dozens of interviews with industry folk, the pair found that the working class, women and those from ethnic minorities were either under-represented or held low or medium quality positions – or a mixture of the two. The academics cited issues like neoptism and “social capital” (ie a network of powerful friends) as factors in the findings. Samantha Horley, whose London-based Salt Company has a progressive policy towards hiring, concurs. “I still think the British industry is extremely classist,” she tells me, noting that in the international sales sector, “people for the most part want sales people who speak like Hugh Grant.” The study also found that the working class was discriminated against because they don’t have the “right accents, hairstyles, clothes or backgrounds.” Maxine Peake, of Channel 4′s Shameless, recently noted the lack of high-profile working class actresses in Britain saying there’s “loads” of working class actors but only one woman: Samantha Morton. Still, Horley, who admits that her own privileged background was probably a leg-up when she started in the business, doesn’t feel that discrimination extends to the creative sector. “You do notice that there’s a lot of posh producers looking after their grungy directors,” she says. The full press release regarding the academic findings follows: Read More »

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Samantha Morton, Amy Adams And Carey Mulligan Circle Spike Jonze Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 1, 2012 @ 6:12pm PSTTags: Amy Adams, Carey Mulligan, Joaquin Phoenix, Megan Ellison, Samantha Morton, Spike Jonze
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UPDATE: Sources tell me that the project that Morton, Adams and Mulligan and Phoenix are doing was written by Spike Jonze himself, and not Charlie Kaufman. The … Read More »

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